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Activist’s conviction for hooliganism over ‘obscene’ protest violated Article 10 ECHR

January 23, 2019

This blog post was written by Ronan Ó Fathaigh and Dirk Voorhoof On 15 January 2019, the European Court’s Second Section unanimously found that an anti-corruption activist’s conviction for staging an “obscene” demonstration outside a prosecutor’s office, targeting a number of public officials, violated the activist’s freedom of expression. The Court in Mătăsaru v. the […]